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  • Judah Benjamin
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  • Judah Philip Benjamin (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a prominent Confederate politician, and lawyer, who served as a representative in the Louisiana state legislature, as United States Senator for Louisiana, in several Cabinet posts in the government of the Confederate States of America, and as a distinguished barrister and Queen's Counsel in Britain. He was the second Jew to serve as a U.S. Senator, and the first in the Cabinet of a North American government (although an unrecognized one).
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type of appearance
  • Direct
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Appearance
  • How Few Remain
Spouse
  • Natalie St. Martin
Name
  • Judah Benjamin
Title
  • Secretary of War for the Confederate States
  • United States Senator from Louisiana
  • Secretary of State for the Confederate States
  • Attorney General for the Confederate States
Cause of Death
  • Heart-related illness
Before
Religion
alongside
  • Pierre Soulé and John Slidell
Years
  • 1861
  • 1862
  • --03-04
After
  • Office abolished
  • Incumbent at novel's end, 1868
  • George W. Randolph
  • Thomas Bragg
  • John S. Harris
  • Unknown, next known is Herbert Walker
Affiliations
Children
  • Ninette Benjamin
Occupation
  • Lawyer, Politician
Death
  • 1884
Birth
  • 1811
Nationality
abstract
  • Judah Philip Benjamin (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a prominent Confederate politician, and lawyer, who served as a representative in the Louisiana state legislature, as United States Senator for Louisiana, in several Cabinet posts in the government of the Confederate States of America, and as a distinguished barrister and Queen's Counsel in Britain. He was the second Jew to serve as a U.S. Senator, and the first in the Cabinet of a North American government (although an unrecognized one).
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